“Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.”
Source: The House of Hades
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“There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.”
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) Austrian artist
Title of manifesto (May 1990) http://www1.kunsthauswien.com/english/okologie.htm
Franz Kafka book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
The First Octavo Notebook https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gD981HZ190BUJF-3czZNX3DsFWvqp3cq-Z4QS4d-9gw/edit?hl=en <br class="br">The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Source: Meditations
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Phaedo 115e
literally: 'For know well', he said, 'o dearest Kriton, that to not speak well is not only sinful by itself, but lets evil intrude into the soul.'(εὖ γὰρ ἴσθι, ἦ δ᾽ ὅς, ὦ ἄριστε Κρίτων, τὸ μὴ καλῶς λέγειν οὐ μόνον εἰς αὐτὸ τοῦτο πλημμελές, ἀλλὰ καὶ κακόν τι ἐμποιεῖ ταῖς ψυχαῖς.)
Plato, Phaedo
“Sometimes I believe that evil is everything, and that good is only a beautiful desire for evil.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
A veces creo el mal es todo y que el bien es sólo un bello deseo del mal.
Voces (1943)
“An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. ”
Jeff Cooper (1920–2006) American journalist
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) American philosopher
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Appendix B: The System in its Ethical Necessity and its Practical Bearings, p.392